Re: [gnome-love] Device icons disappearing before device is fully unmounted

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> I have a few USB sticks that I use regularly, they all show up as device
> icons on my desktop. When I right-click on a device icon and choose
> "Unmount Volume" the icon will disappear immediately. However, there
> might still be disk activity going on (a sync). This means that there is
> no visual queue on when it's safe to pull out the USB stick, and I've
> pulled out the stick too early quite a few times :-(
>
> Is there some way of making sure that the icon stays until it's safe to
> remove the stick. Or to get a notification of some sort?
>
> This is on a Debian Sid system.

In Ubuntu Dapper I see a window with a pulsing progress bar It hides
itself when it's safe to remove the device.

Murray Cumming
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